Lucy Diggs Slowe Papers, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center

Dean Slowe procured $770,000 to develop three new women's dormitories on Fourth Street. These dormitories became the facilities we know today as the Harriet Tubman Quadrangle or "The Quad." The women's housing that she stayed in during her matriculation, Miner Hall, were hardly appropriate for student living any more. In championing this new facility, Dean Slowe created a state-of-the-art residence hall that included two elevators. The national media and tourists marveled at the high quality of the dorm. Slowe rightly predicted that the new space would become one supportive of "the awakening of a new spirit of mind, a new mode of thought, a new standard of life, [and] a new vision of light" for Howard women in her speech at the cornerstone laying. She also encouraged her fellow faculty to "lay our spiritual and intellectual corner stone in the lives of the students of Howard University as artistically, a durably, as this stone is laid today. To that great task we take joy in addressing ourselves."